Improvements to the shutdown(8) manual.

PR:		158807
Submitted by:	arundel
MFC after:	1 week
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Glen Barber 2011-07-14 02:41:45 +00:00
parent 2b6ce80c82
commit 54d3d7c01c
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=223991

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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)shutdown.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/27/95
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd December 30, 2010
.Dd July 13, 2011
.Dt SHUTDOWN 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -83,20 +83,20 @@ If one of the
.Fl p
or
.Fl r
is specified,
options are specified,
.Nm
will execute
.Xr halt 8
or
.Xr reboot 8
instead of sending signal to
instead of sending a signal to
.Xr init 8 .
.It Fl n
If the
.Fl o
is specified, prevent the file system cache from being flushed by passing
option is specified, prevent the file system cache from being flushed by passing
.Fl n
option to
to
.Xr halt 8
or
.Xr reboot 8 .
@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ This option should probably not be used.
is the time at which
.Nm
will bring the system down and
may be the word
may be the case-insensitive word
.Ar now
(indicating an immediate shutdown) or
specify a future time in one of two formats:
a future time in one of two formats:
.Ar +number ,
or
.Ar yymmddhhmm ,
@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ exits.
.Pp
At shutdown time a message is written to the system log, containing the
time of shutdown, the person who initiated the shutdown and the reason.
Corresponding signal is then sent to
The corresponding signal is then sent to
.Xr init 8
to respectively halt, reboot or bring the system down to single-user state
(depending on the above options).
@ -176,16 +176,18 @@ utility will place the system into single user mode at the
.Ar time
specified.
.Pp
Calling utility as
.Nm poweroff
is equivalent of calling:
Calling
.Dq Nm poweroff
is equivalent to running:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
shutdown -p now
.Ed
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /var/run/nologin -compact
.It Pa /var/run/nologin
tells login not to let anyone log in
tells
.Xr login 1
not to let anyone log in
.El
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The hours and minutes in the second time format may be separated by